No, that cat purring on YouTube isn't infringing music copyright
by Stuart Dredge from Technology | The Guardian on (#2YWJ)
Hour-long track of cat purring triggers YouTube's Content ID system, but it's definitely not a feline cover version of Focus track
Cats and copyright infringement: two of the internet's most popular pursuits ... together at last! Except in this case, the copyright infringement has turned out to be a red herring.
The cause was an hour-long, audio-only YouTube video of a cat purring, uploaded in March 2014 by a user named Digihaven. With less than 3,000 views, it was very much in the long (furry) tail of Google's online video service.
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